My Favourite Songs From 1988

[SheriffFatman]

My top 72 favourite songs from 1988:

1. Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
2. Waiting For The Great Leap Forward - Billy Bragg
3. Everyday Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
4. Where Is My Mind? - The Pixies
5. Theme From S Express - S Express
6. Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
7. Alphabet St. - Prince
8. Don’t Believe The Hype - Public Enemy
9. Suedehead - Morrissey
10. Beat Dis - Bomb The Bass
11. Sunshine On Leith - The Proclaimers
12. The Colours - The Men They Couldn’t Hang
13. Crash - The Primitives
14. Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
15. Break 4 Love - Raze
16. Dignity - Deacon Blue
17. Hazy Shade Of Winter - The Bangles
18. Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen
19. Straight Outta Compton - NWA
20. Domino Dancing - Pet Shop Boys
21. Don’t Call Me Baby - Voice Of The Beehive
22. Somewhere In My Heart - Aztec Camera
23. The Only Way Is Up - Yazz and the Plastic Population
24. Mandinka - Sinead O’Connor
25. A Little Respect - Erasure
26. Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
27. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
28. Gigantic - The Pixies
29. Gimmie Hope Jo’anna - Eddy Grant
30. Good Tradition - Tanita Tikarum
31. Handle With Care - The Travelling Wilburys
32. It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
33. Fiesta - The Pogues
34. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
35. Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
36. Broken Land - The Adventures
37. Don’t Go - Hothouse Flowers
38. It’s Yer Money I’m After, Baby - The Wonder Stuff
39. Jack To The Sound Of The Underground - Hithouse
40. Doctorin’ The Tardis - The Timelords
41. Joe Le Taxi - Vanessa Paradis
42. Kokomo - The Beach Boys
43. Left To My Own Devices - Pet Shop Boys
44. Wee Rule - Wee Papa Girl Rappers
45. Bamboleo - Gipsy Kings
46. Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson
47. Martha’s Harbour - All About Eve
48. Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
49. 9AM (The Comfort Zone) - Londonbeat
50. Doctorin’ The House - Coldcut featuring Yazz & the Plastic Population
51. Orinoco Flow - Enya
52. Push It - Salt ‘N’ Pepa
53. Real Gone Kid - Deacon Blue
54. Good Life - Inner City
55. Stakker Humanoid - Humanoid
56. I Want Your Love - Transvision Vamp
57. Desire - U2
58. I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen
59. Stop! - Erasure
60. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
61. John Kettley (Is A Weatherman) - A Tribe Of Toffs
62. Teardrops - Womack & Womack
63. Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen
64. Bad Young Brother - Derek B
65. Im Nin’ Alu - Ofra Haza
66. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
67. Collision - Loop
68. I’m Not Scared - Eighth Wonder
69. Cuddly Toy - Roachford
70. Check This Out - L.A. Mix
71. Rush Hour - Jane Wiedlin
72. Goodbye Mr. McKenzie - Goodbye Mr. McKenzie

[Good Old Days]

Five mentioned songs were represented in my retrospective weekly charts, two from them became # 1 hits.
Primitives - Crash (3-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-3-8-11-15-18-18)
Eighth Wonder - I'm Not Scared (2-1-1-1-2-3-4-5-5-7-9-10-13-16-17)
Voice Of The Beehive - Don't Call Me Baby (5-4-3-4-5-7-10-11-12-14-13-16)
Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (14-11-13-18-20)
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (20-20)

[Earl Purple]

This is a "scratch" chart, we'll see how it looks when I revisit 1988 in my retro. It won't be that different.

1. Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
2. Debbie Gibson - Foolish Beat
3. The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (was #1 after Christmas but entered in 1987)
4. Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices
5. Fairground Attraction - Perfect
6. Primitives - Crash
7. Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
8. Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
9. Erasure - A Little Respect
10. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

[TheThorne]

This is my top 30 which I compiled a few years ago, nothing to do with my weekly charts. The Retro chart will have a different year end version.

1 Prefab Sprout - Cars and Girls
2 Deacon Blue - Dignity
3 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
4 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
5 INXS - New Sensation
6 The Adventures - Broken Land
7 Cheap Trick - The Flame
8 Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
9 The La's - There She Goes
10 Voice Of The Beehive - I Walk The Earth
11 INXS -Never Tear Us Apart – INXS
12 Debbie Gibson - Shake Your Love
13 The Primitives - Crash
14 Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand
15 Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart
16 Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
17 Morrissey - Suedehead
18 Icehouse - Electric Blue
19 Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour
20 One 2 Many -Downtown
21 Glass Tiger - Diamond Sun
22 Won Ton Ton - I Lie And I Cheat
23 Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothing
24 Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot 
25 The Go - Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
26 Bruce Hornsby & The range - The Valley Road
27 The Pixies - Gigantic
28 Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For a Star To Fall
29 The Church - Under The Milky Way
30 Prefab Sprout - The King Of RocknRoll